Stansted Airport advertising 1,000 jobs for summer

Stansted Airport, which hosted the jobs fair on Tuesday, says its increase in passenger numbers is partly a result of Ryanair announcing new routes to Italy, Spain and Austria

London Stansted Airport has hosted a jobs fair in an attempt to recruit 1,000 new employees ahead of the summer season.

Jobs in cabin crew, baggage handling, security, retail and hospitality were all advertised at the site in Essex.

Stansted claims to have made the best recovery of any airport in the UK following the pandemic.

Year-on-year passenger numbers at Stansted dropped 73% in 2020 and the business announced 376 job losses.

Stansted Airport's people director Jane Long said recovery of passenger numbers was a "fantastic story"

Jane Long, the airport's people director, said: "Our numbers going into 2023 through Easter and summer are hitting the peak of 2019 pre-pandemic, so it's a fantastic story."

Passenger numbers dropped from 28 million in 2019 to 7.5 million the following year.

However, the terminal said 1.83 million passed through the gates in November 2022, which was only 3% short of the number in November 2019.

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